First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Promote cycle transport, Sunita Narain says
Director of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Sunita Narain emphasized the need for promoting bicycle as a means of transport in cities in a big way to tackle the problem of air pollution, at in
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Naysayers Doubt Effectiveness of Proposed Environmental Regulator
Environmentalists are sceptical of the new institution’s power to expedite projects After the Supreme Court ruling on Monday, it is now clear that India will soon have an independent environmental regulator. What is less clear is whether this regulator will be a watchdog with teeth or without. In environmental circles, the news was received with some scepticism.
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Rainwater harvesting can help AAP
Focus Should Be On Constructing, Monitoring RWH Systems, Say Experts Aam Aadmi Party may be yet to achieve its goal of equitable water supply in Delhi but this can be worked out in the long run. It is hoped that AAP will take up rainwater harvesting in a big way to meet the massive demand of consumers, especially those in unauthorized colonies.
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Experts slam subsidy, laud solar focus
Critics have called CM Arvind Kejriwal’s power subsidy “populist” and “economically unsound”. But there may be some good in what seems like his government’s hurried announcements. Energy experts are excited
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CSE slams recent CNG price hike, says destroying price advantage of CNG
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has slammed the recent hike in CNG prices, a fuel which drives public transport. This has almost destroyed the price advantage that CNG had over diesel, said Sunita Narain, director general, CSE. This makes the price differential between a greener and a polluting fuel much closer - removing the advantage of running a vehicle on cleaner fuel, say CSE researchers.
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Agriculture and forestry
Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) is a broad category of emissions that has been used by the IPCC since 2006. It widely used in national greenhouse gas inventories and combines two previously
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Energy efficiency of appliances
According to the Consumer Electronics and Appliances Manufacturers Association, consumer electronics and appliances in India is a 45,000-crore-rupee industry. A report prepared by the association this
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Extreme Weather Events
There has been evidence since 1950 of changes in climate extremes. Observed changes in climate extremes reflect the influence of anthropogenic climate change in addition to natural climate variability,
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Global Emissions
In 2013, the Netherlands Environmental Agency (NEA) jointly with the European Commission (EC) published a report on global carbon emissions. One of the major highlights of the report was that 2012 was
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Tense over energy
South Asia is looking at an energy abyss. Millions of its people have no access to electricity or any other energy. This has put the brakes on the high growth rates in what should have been a dynamic region.